Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-03-25
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The New York Star says it opposes the
high license bill now before the New York
legislature because it is 'ta Democrat from
way back" The Star is certainly consistent
1t is now estimated that the Roslindale
saccident" will cost the Boston and Provi-
dence railroad company about million dol
lars. 1t would have been cheaper to have a
reliable bridge, properly attended to.
With Judge Dening at the head of the
new court and Judge Pickett at the head of
the City court, Justice in this region bids fair
tobe we'll administered. Both these judges have
made good records while on the bench.
Britannia won't rule the wave as much as
she did unless there is a change in her nav
al affairs. The announcement is made that
the great war ship the Ajax, upon which the
sum of 50, soc, 900 has been expended, ,is abso-
lutelv unfit for sea.
The Birmingham (Alabama) Chronicle
says that God has spared Jefferson Davis to
read the obituary notices of Greeley, Sum-
ner, Garrison and Beeeher, "as some COM
pensation for what he has suffered" Rather
cold comfort, this.
Governor Currier, Of New Hampshire,
thus closes his Fast Day proclamation: Final
ly, I desire the people of this State, in
their devotions and supplications, to avoid
every form ef idolatry and superstition, and
gratefully and rsverently to recognize in sv-
cry act of their lives that Eternal Being in
whom all things live and have their exist
ence.
The failure of strike in New York shoe
factory is significant. The strike was origi-
nally ordered avowedly to force the employ
ers to recognize" an Executive board" not
composed of their own workmen. When a
renewal of the strike was ordered only about
third of the men quit work and the factory
is running as usual, while the men at work
are obviously much better off than the men
on strike.
Prohibition does not prohibit in Maine.
In Bangor alone there are 100 places which
pay the annual United States tax as retailers
of liquor and three or four which pay for the
privilege of selling at wholesale, and fifty
more retail places within twelve miles of the
city. Nearly all of these have open bars and
employ from two to five persons each, 80 that
there are probably about six hundred persons
directly employed in the sale of liquor.
Every hotel has an open bar and every street
in the business part of the the city has them.
'The main street has eight or ten. Broad,
Exchange, Central, Hammond, Harlow, and
others, are filed with them, and the traffic
is as open as that of the grocery or dry
goods stores.'
The statement of Mr.. Shearer Of the New
York sub treasury that there is not money
enough in circulation for the business and
personal interests of this country will not
surprise those who can't get what money
they want. Mr.. Shearer says that the char
aeter and amount of the money in circula-
ton at present is about as follows: Green
backs, $31S, ,0O0, 900; silver certificates, $121,
100000; gold certificates, $1,000 ,000
national bank notes, $500, 200, 900; total,
1884 100000. This is little over $14 fol
| each person in the United States. 1t is the
| smallest proportionate circulation in a NUM-
Der of years. In 1856 there was $28 for each